Windows 10: Windows 10 PC Boot freezes on spinning dots - sometimes boots after multiple restarts -...

PC has started freezing on boot, on the screen which shows 'Republic of Gamers' Asus motherboard and a circle of spinning dots, which freeze at a random time during their spin and remains frozen. Sometimes it displayed 'Beginning Diagnostic' or 'Starting Automatic Repair' which also freezes.I have done the power cycle into Windows Repair and executed the Boot Repair option which told me it had completed successfully. Subsequently doing this again says it failed to execute the repair. Sometimes it reboots itself while the options are displayed, one time it rebooted after reaching the login

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Windows 10 Failure to Boot Passed Splash logo and spinning dots

Hello,

The summary, I need assistance in trying to repair my windows 10 system that since freezing and having to reset it two days ago it has not booted again. I have not been able to boot past the splash screen and spinning dots since this freeze, it will show
splash logo and spinning dots at the bottom of the screen and then go to a black screen and stay there.

At the time of the freeze I was playing a video game installed on my SSD which is where my Windows 10 OS is installed and also transferring some photos from my phone to my standard HDD. I've had the occasional system freeze/lock up requiring a reboot before
with no problem.

What I've tried so far:

1. 2x Hard reboots to force the system into automatic repair on the third. This will go through POST to the splash screen, which instead of the spinning dots will ready 'Preparing Automatic Repair'. This then goes straight to a black screen and stays there
   indefinitely, at this point I either have to reset or do a hard reboot to try again.
   
2. BIOS Boot menu - from here I've made sure of the correct order, number 1 being Windows Boot Manager on my SSD, I have also used the boot override menu (F8) to select this manually. This results in the same, splash logo and spinning dots followed by indefinite
   black screen.
   
3. Boot from my original Windows 10 USB (UEFI), both with and without my SSD with Win 10 connected to the machine and fast boot disabled, CSM enabled, Secure boot enabled. This seemed to get me a half a step further, I was shown a screen where I could select
   to enter setup for either Windows 10 (64bit) or Windows 10 (32bit) or run a memory test. Selecting the 64bit setup option would then begin to show 'Loading Files' along the bottom of my screen, this would then move to a splash logo of windows and spinning
   dots, then straight to a black screen indefinitely again.
   1. I also ran the memory test, it did not find any faults, also removed and reseated each DIMM, no faults founds. Trying the setup option again after this still results in a black screen, I tried the 32bit install and got the same black screen result.
   2. I played around with a number of BIOS boot settings (CSM & Secure Boot) and never got further than spinning dots followed by black screen.
4. Windows Media Creation Tool - I thought I'll give this a go because my original install USB didn't work. I used the media creation tool and a brand new USB Flash drive to create a new bootable installation media. The tool made this without any errors.
   When I boot from this new USB though I end up with the same result, this time though I get no setup selection (presumably because I made it only for Win 10 64bit) it's straight to windows splash logo and spinning dots, followed by black screen.
   1. I've tried using this new USB when my OS SSD is connected and not-connected, same result of black screen.
   2. I have tried with the GFX card removed and using CPU gfxs, same result of black screen.

Through everything I've tried not once have I ended up at the start of the Windows 10 install environment where I could select repair, so far everything I've tried results in an indefinitely black screen after the first splash logo and spinning dots go away.
I'm at a loss from where to go from here with troubleshooting this without perhaps pointing the finger at my motherboard. My motherboard however has not shown any fault lights or beep codes and which ever boot media I've tried it is recognizing and seems
to try to use it but then I fall down at the black screen each time.

Any assistance would be much appreciated, even if its trying the same things again but with a slightly different or more structured approach.

System specs for reference:

OS: Windows 10 Home (64bit)

CPU: i5-6600K 3.5ghz

Mobo: Asus Z170 Pro Gaming

RAM: 16GB (2x 8GB Corsair Vengeance 2133 MHz)

SSD: Samsung 850 EVO 250GB

HDD: WD 1TB 7200 RPM (WD10EZEX)

GFX: Asus Strix AMD Radeon R9 390 8GB

PSU: Corsair RM650i (650 watt)

 

Booting sysprep cloned image to spinning dots

hi.

So I have imaged a Windows 10 HE that I have sysprep /generalize to OOBE on virtualbox.

And written back that image (YES disk image not vm disk, don't ask me how) to my HP Stream 10 netbook.
After fixing issue with the boot process, it boots now to the HP logo and the spinning dots.

I am assuming Windows 10 is starting to load but fails ?

What could be the issue ? given that it is a sysprep generalized image, I am guessing it should be ok for the drivers, right ? What step of the boot process is it ? Why is it stuck in it ?

What could the problem with those spinning dots and how to fix it ?

 

Windows 10 freeze at spinning dots

Hi all,

I am currently having a problem when trying to install clean windows 10 from USB boot or upgrade win 10 to 1809 from 1803.

Both have same issues cant boot to windows and my laptop freezes at the loading spinning dots screen. and the update process was not successful and system rolled back to version 1803 after hard reset.

Please provide a solution how to fix this

Thanks & regards,

DDK